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The 4th IiME International ME/CFS Conference 2009

The 2009 Invest in ME International ME/CFS conference will be on 29th May with the theme Management, Treatment and Research into ME/CFS.

As in previous years Invest in ME aim to raise awareness of the neurological illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) and we shall be focusing on severely and moderately affected patients with ME as part of our campaign for a national strategy for biomedical research into ME which will lead to treatment and a cure for this devastating illness – an illness which is about 5 times more common in the UK than HIV/AIDS – yet which has had little funding spent on biomedical research.

At the 2009 conference we will raise more awareness of severe ME – a group of patients who are not represented in research trials and misunderstood by healthcare services. Many believe that studying severe ME will yield treatments and cures for this illness and have repercussions for other services including management of ME.